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It happens only rarely, but every once in a while you run into a client who wants to do things out of sequence. Most often, we're asked to work on projects where there's an existing home that needs a watershape. Just as commonly, we're brought in when a home is being built at the same time as a new pool and its associated environment. In the case described in this article, however, our client owned a 20-acre site with little more than
CMP (Newnan, GA) offers Natural Wonders Waterfalls for adding sheer veils of water to pools,…
Fox Pool (York, PA) now offers straight and radiused in-pool benches with its vinyl-liner pool…
If friends had told me that, eight years after leaving the Las Vegas desert, I'd be incorporating synthetic turf in a high percentage of my outdoor spaces in Texas, I would've said "No way!" What a concept! I now live and work where there's no water shortage, so why on earth would my clients or I have any interest in finding substitutes for big expanses of lawn? Well, what I'm seeing now is that the low-maintenance, long-lasting faux-grass solution is
To say that I've avidly followed the just-completed process of restoring and renovating the Main Fountain Garden at Longwood Gardens is putting it mildly: This water display has been part of my life since I was ten years old, and I'm proud to say that it's responsible both for my profound interest in water in motion and in some ways for my being a professional watershaper today. So it makes sense that I was there at Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, Pa.) on May 27, 2017, when the fountain
Magic Plastics (Valencia, CA) has released the CR2, a back-flow-preventing check valve that is completely…
As you're probably aware, I live in southern California in the southwestern corner of the San Fernando Valley. You may also know that it gets wicked hot here, which is why this slice of the globe boasts more swimming pools per capita than anywhere other than maybe the Phoenix metroplex. What you probably don't know is
One of the things I like most about working in the watershaping business these days is how clever and creative designers and builders have become at what they do. It's not just the big details such as vanishing edges, play-pool configurations, sun shelves or swim-up bars. And it's about more than beach entries, grottos, laminar jets and cool spillways. Those are all great, every one of them, but what I'm talking about here is the attention to the small things - the subtle ways more and more watershapers are finding to make
Ponds are often valued for being uniquely calming and comforting. But for a child with autism, these watershapes can also be therapeutic in a number of ways. That's wonderful news for these kids, Mike Gannon observes -- and great for their families as well.
